Literature year 1912

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Literature year 1912
The Grand Hotel Excelsior on the Lido, which is mentioned several times in Death in VeniceThe Neue Rundschau publishes
Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice for the first time .
chronology
21th January Rainer Maria Rilke sends the first of his Duino elegies from Duino to Marie Taxis.
20. February Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the Manifesto of Futurism .
23. May The Insel-Verlag announces the establishment of the Island Library at.
2nd July The first twelve volumes of the Insel-Bücherei are being delivered.
August 10 Virginia Stephen marries Leonard Sydney Woolf .
22 / September 23 In one night, Franz Kafka wrote the story The Judgment .
22nd of November Det Norske Teatret is founded in Oslo .
December 7th The fairy tale Peterchens Mondfahrt by Gerdt von Bassewitz is premiered.

Events

prose

German-language literature

Arthur Schnitzler 1912, photo by Ferdinand Schmutzer
Waldemar Bonsels

English-language literature

Title of
Tarzan's magazine issue
  • October: In the October issue of All-Story Magazine for the first time Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel appears Tarzan of the Apes ( Tarzan of the Apes ).
The Lost World , first edition from 1912

Russian-language literature

From Lev Tolstoy appear posthumously:

Poetry

Duino Castle, on the right the rocks with the Rilkeweg to Sistiana
  • Rainer Maria Rilke begins writing his Duino elegies at Duino Castle near Trieste , the first of which he will send to his host Marie von Taxis on January 21 . The second elegy is created at the end of January / beginning of February. On May 9th, Rilke left Duino Castle after starting work on other elegies.
The snuffbox

drama

First edition of Shaw's Pygmalion

Scientific works

religion

Awards ceremonies

Gerhart Hauptmann

Olympic games

Publishing

Announcement of the first 12 IB volumes in the official part of Börsenblatt No. 118 of May 23, 1912
Insel-Bücherei Nr. 1, Rainer Maria Rilke: Cornet

Others

  • around 1912: The literary movement of imagism emerges in the Anglo-American region .

Born

First half of the year

Second half of the year

Exact date unknown

Died

The May tomb in Radebeul with a marble relief by Selmar Werner
Bram Stoker's urn in Golders Green

Web links

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